Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Boston Thearre.The only noteworthy feature of the production of Richard III. last evening was the acting of Mr. Mansfield. This versatile artist, in spite of a few faults of the conventional villain, car the part through in a very powerfur and admirable manner. This evening is the last chance to hear this role, which is considered Mansfield's master-piece. A Parisian Romance. Prince Carl, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will fill out the week...
...following officers of the Hasty Pudding Club were elected last night: President, Russell Fessenden, '90; vice president, George Blagden, Jr., '90; chorister, R. W. Atkinson, '91; K. R., A. B. Nichols, '91; secretary, J. A. Lowell, '91; treasurer, M. Luce, '91; artist, P. Scewart, '90. House and election committees were also elected...
...Madame Bovary," by J. B. Fletcher, is a discussion of Flaubert's method. The writer finds it to be that of a surgeon, rather than of an artist-for both treatment of life and description lack literary perspective. The minor characters, however, he considers excellent. The article is interesting and vigorous. It would be improved by omitting Flaubert's description of the beggar...
...reproduction is a work of art. True art, the author says, is "nature reflected in the spiritual mirror, and tinged with all the sentiment, feeling, and passion of the spirit that reflects it." It is neither real or illusory; it is the embodiment of the inmost being of the artist. For, if the artist cannot feel his own work and infuse into it his own spirit, how can he expect his work to move others? Moreover, each work has its own word to say; it must embody but one idea, and unless this word is spoken, the whole...
...London for the past year or more, engaged in literary work. A friend who recently visited him there describes him as haunting the library of the British Museum day after day. Last winter he spent in Egypt and the East in company with Percy Anderson, the well-known English artist. An article on Crete, with illustrations by Mr. Anderson, will soon appear in the British Illustrated, the result of materials collected during this journey. Mr. Fullerton has an article also in the Fortnightly Review for February, entitled "English and Americans." -Advertiser...